Internet/Tech/E-Commerce

Burson-Marsteller is World’s leading public relations and communications firm based out of New York, and they operate 139 offices across 98 countries. Their study, titled: “World Leaders on Facebook 2017” says that PM Modi’s official page is world’s most followed public page with 40 million fans, whereas it is also the page with maximum interactions on Facebook, with 169 interactions as of February 1st, 2017

If you have used apps like Saavn and Gaana, you would want to know about recurring bill payment service run by Paytm. Users can now choose to pay through Paytm every time the subscription is required, making it convenient for both the customers and the business.

RBI (Reserve Bank of India) is now planning to open up the UPI (Unified Payment Interface) framework for these digital wallets. This will make the digital wallets interoperable with each other and will thus allow you to send payments to anyone irrespective to the mobile wallets of their choice.

All social media platforms are targeting the USP of Snapchat – destructible messages. Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp all three have copied Snapchat’s 24-hour story feature, while some have copied Snapchat’s secret message feature.

In a major embarrassment to PM Modi’s Digital India mission, and his crusade against corruption, the very website which was meant to become the front-end for reporting corruption has crashed. And the worst thing: There is no backup of the crashed database, and this means that valuable data about all corrupt officials is now lost. For ever.

Just like a kaleidoscope, there exists several aspects, layers to entrepreneurship. Some are good, some are bad, and some are downright evil. One such extraordinary aspect was witnessed last week, when a co-founder of a failed startup was arrested for defaulting on payments.

Zomato, a restaurant listing website and app, is profitable in the United Arab Emirates(UAE) and India. The company has now launched Zomato Gold, a membership program for a premium nightlife experience, in the cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi of UAE.

The research team at Check Point Software Technologies has found the malware in the Android smartphones that could cause the most problems for the users. Since these malwares are in the backend, the user usually doesn’t even get to know.

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For the third time in row, Hyderabad has emerged as the best Indian city to live, based on quality of living, in India. Due to low crime rates, better educational facilities and low pollution, Hyderabad has once again beaten all Indian cities in the recent Mercer Quality Of Living Survey 2017.